Rail joint



P. P. FARRELLYy RA1L JOINT April 27 1926. 1,582,210

Filed Nov. 30 1925 @L /SMM @Wemag Patented Apr. 27, 1926.

UNITED STATES issazlo PArsnr orties.)

BETER PHILLIP FARRELLY, DECEASED, LATE F PRTLANI), OREGON; BY ANNA A. FARRELLY, ADMINISTRATRIX, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

RAIL JOINT. y,

Application filed November 3o, 1925. semi-n0.

To @ZZ whom, t may concern.: j

Be it known that PETER PHiLLn? F Annun- LY, deceased, late a citizen of the United States, and late aresident of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, did invent new and useful Improvements in Rail Joints, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a rail l0 `joint and has for its prime object to pro vide a structure for efficiently supporting the adjacent endsV of aligned rails and-"to eliminate the usual pounding ofthe kends of the rails which causes considerable in# jury thereto, and to the wheels passing thereover.

Another very important object of the invention is the provision of a rail joint of this nature which is exceedingly strong and and otherwise well adapted to the for which it is designed.l

Vith the above and numerous other objects in view as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in certain novel features of construction, and in the combin ation and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Figure l is a side elevation of the rail joint embodying the features of my invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof, and

Figure 3 is an end view thereof.

referring to the drawing in detail it will be seen that 5 designates a bridge plate purpose which is adapted to be supported between two ties between which the rails terminate. This plate is provided on each longitudinal edge with a pair of. strengthening iianges or ribs 6 upstanding therefrom. On the bottom surface of the bridge plate at the center thereof with respect to its ends, I provide a pair of spaced parallel longitudinally extending strengthening ribs 7, one on each side of the longitudinal median axis of said bridge plate. ture of my improved structure wherein the strengthening flanges or ribs 6 extend from the ends of the bridge plate and terminate a distance from the intermediate portion thereof. Attention is particularly directed to Figure l wherein it will be seen that the thickness of the bridge plate is greatest at its intermediate portion.

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Attention is called to the fea-` Said intermediate portion' has its upper surface `substantially fiat and parallel with the bottom surface while he endk portions of the surfacefare beveledfroin the intermediate surface downwardly toward the ends so that the ends of the plate are thinner than the intermediate rllhe ends of the rails 8 rest on the intermediate 'portion of the bridge plate. as. is disclosed to advantage in Figure ltaken in connection with Figure 3. j

I .The fish plates 9 are bolted one to each side of the websrof the rails as at l0.r `Bars 1l are constructed to be wider at their centers than at their ends as is apparent from an inspection of Figure 2. rFliese bars have their inner edges shaped to engage the bottoinedges of the fish plates 9 and the inter-S mediate portions of these bars are bolted as at 12 to the intermediate portion of the bridge plate 5. j

The inclined or beveled surfaces of the bridge plate cause the stress to be placed near the ends of the rails to prevent pound ing. The ribs 7 are disposed under the rails on the bottom surface of the bridge plate to receive this stress.

In the laying of new tracks it is not necesary to takel the joints apart. The joint is merely slipped over the end of one rail and one bolt 10 is putin the bar and then the next rail is slipped into the joint, and then the second bolt l0 is engaged with theJ second Spike receiving openings 13 are provided in the bridge plate so that the same may be secured tothe ties upon which it rests.

It is thought that the construction, utility, advantages, convenience, and thelike of the invention will now be clearly understood without a more detailed description thereof.

The present embodiment of the invention has been disclosed in detail merely by way' of example since in actual practice it attains the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention yand the above description. It is apparent that numerous changes in the details of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts may beresorted to without departing from the spirit or scope of the inany of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is l. A bridge plate of the class described including an elongated body having its intermediate portion thicker than its ends so as to provide an intermediately disposed upper flat plane surface merging into downwardly inclined end surfaces, strengthening lianges on the longitudinal edges of the body rising upwardly therefrom, there being two flanges on each longitudinal edge having their inner ends spaced, and a pair of depending ribs on the bottom surface of the body extending longitudinally thereof, one on each side of the longitudinal aXis thereof.

'2. A rail jointI of the class described including a bridge 'plate having its intermediate portion thicker than its ends so 'as to provide an intermediate flat plane surface and downwardly incline'dend surfaces merg- ,infr therefrom, and bars adapted to be attaehed to tthe bridge plate '-to extend longitudinally thereof.

3. A. rail joint of the class described, including in combination, a bridge 4plate having an elongated rectangular body portion thicker at its intermediate part than at its ends so as to provide an intermediate lat surface merging into downwardly inclined end surfaces, a pair of strengthening flanges on each llongitudinal edge of the body portion rising therefrom and spaced at their inner ends, a pair of depending strengthening ribs extending from the bottom surface of the body portion, one to each side of the longitudinal axis thereof and having their ends spaced from the ends of the body p0rt-ion, la pair of fish plates adapted to be engaged with the adjacent ends of va pair of aligned rails, a pair of bars, means for bolting the bars to the intermediate portions of the body portion so that the inner edges of the bars engage the -lower edges of the fish plates.

In vtestimony whereof I afx my signature.

T ANNA A. FARRELLY, Admz'm'stmtr 'of Peterl PzzZZz'p Farrelly Deceased. j f 

